So, my Apple party member friends (You know who you are hehe) always tells me that a 500MHz Apple box is roughly the same as any 750 MHz Wintel box, in other words, a factor of about x1.5 extra punch.
Makes little difference when they overload the computers with GUIs that takes x3 extra resources.
And not to offend anyone (I hope), but it is stomachturningly cuddly with all those brightly colored thingummies. Think childrens TV on LSD. And this people wants to copy?
There is a reason there is a way of measuring speed in MacOSX called "bouncemarks". Yuck.
... when someone Really annoys me with a (or five, mostly) stupid popup(s), I send them a mail explaining that whatever they are trying to sell me, they just lost any opportunity to do so.
Lots of the time I get replies saying "umm... what? our bureau handles that...", so maybe the advertising world is run by evil trolls without the companies knowledge?
Anyways, there is not much I Can do besides not buying stuff from annoying companies, but mailing them and telling them Why I am not buying is at least something.
And yes, I am pro moderate and well-behaving ads. I click on those when they interest me.
If advertisers would have just stuck to those. They didn't really annoy anyone. Well, there is always the "principle" guys. Those that invented the (unnecessary imo) filters.
Anyway, I am prepared to pay for services, at reasonable prices. One of the ways to pay is by viewing (and possibly clicking) on ads online. I say that is a fair price as long as the ads are not thrown in my face.
I have full understanding that it costs money to be online - and I am prepared to support good content online.
Furthermore, I think that if advertisers hadn't done what they have done, which is going to stupid extents to try and draw our attention, they would still be able to live on advertising.
I mean, if an ad interests me, I actually click on it. Such as those that appear here on slashdot for instance - they get my interest now and then. A popup ad however... it gets killed before it can show me anything. Not to mention those that popup 5 and try to set themselves as my start page and so on...
And no. I will not get any filters or similar. For the first thing, I should not need it. For the second, see above: I actually support online advertisments that are targetted, discreet and "good" (whatever that means).
If ads is a way to pay for, and encourage good online content, by all means bring them on. But keep to banners. Those that are interested WILL click on your ad!!! Those that are not will not because you give them 200 popups.
And that is what will hurt linux users the most when the first well-written worm arrives in a world with enough linux boxes.
Since so many assumes it is so safe, the suprise will shake the foundation hard, I think.
On the other hand, with the non-trusting environment (in a good way), it is hard to imagine any great damage done... and well, that is my point I guess.
And don't trust that every Linux user is a nerd, professional or interested enough. For the first thing it is slowly hitting the average guy with the red hats and whatnot. And also a lot of companies switch to Linux for obvious reasons, but they still have the same morons or worse trying to administrate the boxes. Lots of hosting companies run Linux because it sounds good and it has a quality ring to it - which is true - but they don't know sh*t about the system, and in many cases they just want to grab the money.
I think that many/most of them are alright though - so far...
I've yet to see Any installation that has started the web server/service for you without you actively doing anything. This senior citizen will not be targetted, because the server will not be running.
But I agree too, helping these people out would be nice. If the ISP was ready to actually help out some, the ideal solution would be to shut down port 80 etc for the hacked ones, and then send out a patch with instructions. Can't be that hard.
Well, my ISP recommended me to get some kind of firewall, describing pretty well in laymens words what the risks were and so forth. Very good! Now, if they only would turn off those stupid users too..
I don't see what a firewall would have to do with connecting more than one machine though. That is hadly something specific to a firewall.
Or, "Too many secrets" - remember "Sneakers", anyone? I loved that movie.
Well, that would be the way then... a hardwired chip that broke all the codes - but then we would not need any backdoors.
Basically, for any backdoor to work, it has to somehow carry the data for it's own unlocking, right? So what we mean by backdoors is more or less impossible.
Could they mean a backdoor to your copy of PGP? Possibly. They trace whoever encrypted the message and then get the key from the backdoor.
Anyways, I have no idea what you need cryptos so badly for. I actually don't. WHat is it that is so critical that you know?
I am not sure as to how many are actually running web servers totally unaware though... I've yet to see even a Windows version that actually installs and runs IIS (or what is it called, PWS?) without you knowing. Those I have seen made you do thing smanually before you wer up and running.
Which actually makes things worse. I am very serious about that too - if you don't know what you are doing, don't.
:)
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That little table there, listing programs common to, and running on MS, with alternatives, and how good they are, on Linux, I think that was sweet. No, I won't go into if I think the judgement was right on all of them...
But is there a more comprehensive list like that out there? For those that would like to trade in their windows, but has certain thing sthey want to do, be it doing word processing, program java just like in Borland or just Icq their friends - what is their options?
If such a list does not exist, it should. Unbiased, with comments from several actual users. I would think that such would be very helpful for a lot of people.
Hmm... I still run W2k on a P II - 400 with 393 MB, and it used to be 128 MB, and I had No problem whatsoever. Then again, I totally refuse to install Office.
I've run W2k on a P200, 128MB as well, and the OS itself ran pretty smoothly with most applications.
Staroffice is available on W2k too, and looking nice... but I so much hate those programs that has to do it all. Hog all the resources and do everything so-so instead of one thing good, that is not a winning concept.
Using "M$" and "luser" only makes you look 15, and a PHP or VB script kiddie at that. Not impressed.
On the other hand, I do agree that people that for instance run IIS on a home network and then get infected like this, and don't care either, should be shut off until they've learned, for instance, to run apache.
I'm probably running the most hacksafe webserver possible at home, for fun (not hosting anything really) - an Apache on a Windows 2000. Tell me when you find a virus or a hacker targetting That combination...:)
I am not that interested. I'm fully content with remembering a few passwords, entering my email where necessary and so forth. So what interests me the absolute most is, will this Ban me from places if I decide not to play along? Or can I access stuff anyways, but I'll have to enter my credentials myself (like I do today)?
The only secure place I need and want is my bank, and they have a nifty little code generator that protects my account, and I can do all the basic stuff that way.
What do I gain from this? What do I lose? What do I lose if I don't participate?
Please help a guy that needs to do some more reading up.:)
First off, 99% of media don't know sh*t about sh*t. They do not make any deeper research, they just blow up some huge headlines about "Most dangerous virus ever", and then they quote some random security guy that says some vague things, usually someone from Symantec or MacAfee that has every reason to blow the issue up.
They usually mention that mac users aren't affected, as if that was the only othe computer.
And they always call outlook viruses "email viruses", IIS viruses for "Web server viruses" etc.
Most of the time, they just don't know better. And as long as media does not, or chose not to, the general public will not either.
All media wants is readers/viewers. They don't care about facts such as who is responsible, they want headlines. That should be painfully obvious by now.
I would really love it, and for a long time it has looked as if it is possible, by offering support, training and other stuff that is really valuable to "sell",and still keeping with the open source idea.
But. I can't help but think that it is likely to be the same kind of trick we play on our own minds as it was with online advertising, e-business in general and the whole dot-com thingummy.
Online advertising - I still say that could have worked to some extent if it wasn't so overhyped at the start, and if the stupid mofos would have stuck to banners that don't annoy anyone.
E-business... well, the ones that succeed is 99% businesses that are well established offline first... with some remarkable exceptions of course.:) And slowly people starts to realize that you don't make money just because you are online. About time. You missed breakfast...
Dot-com. Well. Um. No comment. Everybody believed in it. Whatever it was. Noone knew...
Well, anyways - is commercial Open source a "hoax" too? Some parts will most definetely survive, I think. Companies that do open source because they need, or at least can use, the product themselves, for instance. That is beautiful.
But taking a product and providing services and knowledge about it for money? Hmm... actually, that isn't so stupid. If cars were free, we'd still have mechanics for the non-technical dudes. I guess that the free car of today has too little marketshare, a bit suspect reputation, and has the steering wheel on the wrong side. A bit awkvard for most, in other words.
And lots of people on the net, and lots of americans too, generally confuse freedom with what they would like to do, be it drink beer, shoot people or use encryption.
I do agree it is very childish to encrypt all traffic "just because". What would you hide - and why? And if it is out of principle, grow up.
Consequently, my PGP installation was used twice, about half a year ago, when I tried it out. I haven't had the need since, and I'm still waiting for the time when I will...:)
Because let's face it, we're the last ones they'll listen too. We're strange figures, and highly supspect already, and for those from there, probably very "unamerican" too.
Who knows what our motives are...
I know this might look like flamebait to some of you, but it is not the intention at least. Just think about it - we are not the people some highstrung conservative and technically illiterate politicians would listen to, no matter what issue.
So. Who should tell them, and how? This, I think, is worth pondering. Or?
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... if you are fond of waiting. Can you say "Bouncemarks"?.
So, my Apple party member friends (You know who you are hehe) always tells me that a 500MHz Apple box is roughly the same as any 750 MHz Wintel box, in other words, a factor of about x1.5 extra punch.
Makes little difference when they overload the computers with GUIs that takes x3 extra resources.
And not to offend anyone (I hope), but it is stomachturningly cuddly with all those brightly colored thingummies. Think childrens TV on LSD. And this people wants to copy?
There is a reason there is a way of measuring speed in MacOSX called "bouncemarks". Yuck.
Done venting. Thanks.
... when someone Really annoys me with a (or five, mostly) stupid popup(s), I send them a mail explaining that whatever they are trying to sell me, they just lost any opportunity to do so.
Lots of the time I get replies saying "umm... what? our bureau handles that...", so maybe the advertising world is run by evil trolls without the companies knowledge?
Anyways, there is not much I Can do besides not buying stuff from annoying companies, but mailing them and telling them Why I am not buying is at least something.
And yes, I am pro moderate and well-behaving ads. I click on those when they interest me.
If advertisers would have just stuck to those. They didn't really annoy anyone. Well, there is always the "principle" guys. Those that invented the (unnecessary imo) filters.
Anyway, I am prepared to pay for services, at reasonable prices. One of the ways to pay is by viewing (and possibly clicking) on ads online. I say that is a fair price as long as the ads are not thrown in my face.
I have full understanding that it costs money to be online - and I am prepared to support good content online.
Furthermore, I think that if advertisers hadn't done what they have done, which is going to stupid extents to try and draw our attention, they would still be able to live on advertising.
I mean, if an ad interests me, I actually click on it. Such as those that appear here on slashdot for instance - they get my interest now and then. A popup ad however... it gets killed before it can show me anything. Not to mention those that popup 5 and try to set themselves as my start page and so on...
And no. I will not get any filters or similar. For the first thing, I should not need it. For the second, see above: I actually support online advertisments that are targetted, discreet and "good" (whatever that means).
If ads is a way to pay for, and encourage good online content, by all means bring them on. But keep to banners. Those that are interested WILL click on your ad!!! Those that are not will not because you give them 200 popups.
Thank you.
... that kind of hatemail anyways. Who do they think they are winning over?
I think this was the right thing to do. Since people can't learn to control themselves. Maybe this will wake someone up.
He stated perfectly clearly in the old article that he liked the Post, and he thought it was a honest mistake. What more do you want?
Even if matters were otherwise, you are destroying for yourself by stooping down to the American election campaign level - ie mud pies.
And that is what will hurt linux users the most when the first well-written worm arrives in a world with enough linux boxes.
Since so many assumes it is so safe, the suprise will shake the foundation hard, I think.
On the other hand, with the non-trusting environment (in a good way), it is hard to imagine any great damage done... and well, that is my point I guess.
And don't trust that every Linux user is a nerd, professional or interested enough. For the first thing it is slowly hitting the average guy with the red hats and whatnot. And also a lot of companies switch to Linux for obvious reasons, but they still have the same morons or worse trying to administrate the boxes. Lots of hosting companies run Linux because it sounds good and it has a quality ring to it - which is true - but they don't know sh*t about the system, and in many cases they just want to grab the money.
I think that many/most of them are alright though - so far...
...prevents me from saying bad things about a bad company.
:)
Too bad I use a normal text editor for all such bad stuff... and maybe someday, some good.
"I'm bad" - M. Jackson
And I look forward to seeing "Hacking Windows 2000 Exposed" later this year --- I can only assume it'll say "Install Linux."
But of course, an easy way to score cheap points around here.
Seems like a Really sweet book though, it goes straight up to top three on my wish list!
... I blame their parents for manufacturing these humans. Obviously, they were defective and turned bad.
Americans would like to beleive so.
If nothing else, the average Joe on the street will feel safe if the pres. says that no other countries are getting encryption technologies.
I've yet to see Any installation that has started the web server/service for you without you actively doing anything. This senior citizen will not be targetted, because the server will not be running.
But I agree too, helping these people out would be nice. If the ISP was ready to actually help out some, the ideal solution would be to shut down port 80 etc for the hacked ones, and then send out a patch with instructions. Can't be that hard.
Well, my ISP recommended me to get some kind of firewall, describing pretty well in laymens words what the risks were and so forth. Very good! Now, if they only would turn off those stupid users too..
I don't see what a firewall would have to do with connecting more than one machine though. That is hadly something specific to a firewall.
Because the old SimCity rocked, while the Sims was the most mediocre thing I ever saw... :)
There has been som sleep lost over that old game, to be sure...
Or, "Too many secrets" - remember "Sneakers", anyone? I loved that movie.
Well, that would be the way then... a hardwired chip that broke all the codes - but then we would not need any backdoors.
Basically, for any backdoor to work, it has to somehow carry the data for it's own unlocking, right? So what we mean by backdoors is more or less impossible.
Could they mean a backdoor to your copy of PGP? Possibly. They trace whoever encrypted the message and then get the key from the backdoor.
Anyways, I have no idea what you need cryptos so badly for. I actually don't. WHat is it that is so critical that you know?
Darn it. I feel Sooo handicapped without it.
Yes, absolutely.
I am not sure as to how many are actually running web servers totally unaware though... I've yet to see even a Windows version that actually installs and runs IIS (or what is it called, PWS?) without you knowing. Those I have seen made you do thing smanually before you wer up and running.
Which actually makes things worse. I am very serious about that too - if you don't know what you are doing, don't.
:)
That little table there, listing programs common to, and running on MS, with alternatives, and how good they are, on Linux, I think that was sweet. No, I won't go into if I think the judgement was right on all of them...
But is there a more comprehensive list like that out there? For those that would like to trade in their windows, but has certain thing sthey want to do, be it doing word processing, program java just like in Borland or just Icq their friends - what is their options?
If such a list does not exist, it should. Unbiased, with comments from several actual users. I would think that such would be very helpful for a lot of people.
And be honest when there is no good match, ok?
Hmm... I still run W2k on a P II - 400 with 393 MB, and it used to be 128 MB, and I had No problem whatsoever. Then again, I totally refuse to install Office.
I've run W2k on a P200, 128MB as well, and the OS itself ran pretty smoothly with most applications.
Staroffice is available on W2k too, and looking nice... but I so much hate those programs that has to do it all. Hog all the resources and do everything so-so instead of one thing good, that is not a winning concept.
On the other hand, Office is Not better.
Using "M$" and "luser" only makes you look 15, and a PHP or VB script kiddie at that. Not impressed.
:)
On the other hand, I do agree that people that for instance run IIS on a home network and then get infected like this, and don't care either, should be shut off until they've learned, for instance, to run apache.
I'm probably running the most hacksafe webserver possible at home, for fun (not hosting anything really) - an Apache on a Windows 2000. Tell me when you find a virus or a hacker targetting That combination...
Maybe I missed the whole point, but...
:)
I am not that interested. I'm fully content with remembering a few passwords, entering my email where necessary and so forth. So what interests me the absolute most is, will this Ban me from places if I decide not to play along? Or can I access stuff anyways, but I'll have to enter my credentials myself (like I do today)?
The only secure place I need and want is my bank, and they have a nifty little code generator that protects my account, and I can do all the basic stuff that way.
What do I gain from this? What do I lose? What do I lose if I don't participate?
Please help a guy that needs to do some more reading up.
First off, 99% of media don't know sh*t about sh*t. They do not make any deeper research, they just blow up some huge headlines about "Most dangerous virus ever", and then they quote some random security guy that says some vague things, usually someone from Symantec or MacAfee that has every reason to blow the issue up.
They usually mention that mac users aren't affected, as if that was the only othe computer.
And they always call outlook viruses "email viruses", IIS viruses for "Web server viruses" etc.
Most of the time, they just don't know better. And as long as media does not, or chose not to, the general public will not either.
All media wants is readers/viewers. They don't care about facts such as who is responsible, they want headlines. That should be painfully obvious by now.
There is no logic that marketing can't turn upside-down. :)
I would really love it, and for a long time it has looked as if it is possible, by offering support, training and other stuff that is really valuable to "sell",and still keeping with the open source idea.
:) And slowly people starts to realize that you don't make money just because you are online. About time. You missed breakfast...
:)
But. I can't help but think that it is likely to be the same kind of trick we play on our own minds as it was with online advertising, e-business in general and the whole dot-com thingummy.
Online advertising - I still say that could have worked to some extent if it wasn't so overhyped at the start, and if the stupid mofos would have stuck to banners that don't annoy anyone.
E-business... well, the ones that succeed is 99% businesses that are well established offline first... with some remarkable exceptions of course.
Dot-com. Well. Um. No comment. Everybody believed in it. Whatever it was. Noone knew...
Well, anyways - is commercial Open source a "hoax" too? Some parts will most definetely survive, I think. Companies that do open source because they need, or at least can use, the product themselves, for instance. That is beautiful.
But taking a product and providing services and knowledge about it for money? Hmm... actually, that isn't so stupid. If cars were free, we'd still have mechanics for the non-technical dudes. I guess that the free car of today has too little marketshare, a bit suspect reputation, and has the steering wheel on the wrong side. A bit awkvard for most, in other words.
This could change. I hope it does...
Some very good points, I admit.
:)
And lots of people on the net, and lots of americans too, generally confuse freedom with what they would like to do, be it drink beer, shoot people or use encryption.
I do agree it is very childish to encrypt all traffic "just because". What would you hide - and why? And if it is out of principle, grow up.
Consequently, my PGP installation was used twice, about half a year ago, when I tried it out. I haven't had the need since, and I'm still waiting for the time when I will...
... unless We Don't, and someone else tries.
Because let's face it, we're the last ones they'll listen too. We're strange figures, and highly supspect already, and for those from there, probably very "unamerican" too.
Who knows what our motives are...
I know this might look like flamebait to some of you, but it is not the intention at least. Just think about it - we are not the people some highstrung conservative and technically illiterate politicians would listen to, no matter what issue.
So. Who should tell them, and how? This, I think, is worth pondering. Or?